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16/2/2016 at 11:23am
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Once you have found the satellite, to make life easier for future attempts make a note of the Dish elevation, this will be around 23Deg.
To do this you will require a Angle finder.
Google will tell you the elevation for the Astra2 Satellite at your exact location.
Once you have this reference point marked on the Dish, at a point were you can place an angle finder, preferable a Digital one.
Then the next time you use the system, you simply set the Dish to the relevant elevation using the angle finder.
Then it is just simply a case of panning the Dish from East to West of South, this will take almost all the guess work away.
A basic Digital angle finder can be had for under £20 these days.
The mount that we use for the Dish is Tripod type bike stand, that we got from Lidl, in fact it has 4 Legs, so I guess it should be called a Quad Pod!
Anyway the beauty of using the bike stand, is that it offers the Dish a perfectly verticle mount, whilst allowing the Dish to rotate East to West, the bike stand has a QR mechanism to lock the Dish into position once the satellite is located.
The stand also comes in handy for fixing my bike!
Post last edited on 16/02/2016 11:32:19
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